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The International Letter Summer 2019 ESHPh European Society for the History of Photography Association Européenne pour l’Histoire de la Photographie Europäische Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Photographie The International Letter Summer 2019 The International Letter is published three times a year (spring – summer – autumn) © European Society for The History of Photography (ESHPh), Komödiengasse 1/1/17, 1020 Vienna, Austria www.eshph.org Editors: Uwe Schögl, Ulla Fischer-Westhauser Dear Reader, With this issue of the ESHPh International Letter we are presenting a selection of the numerous upcoming events, exhibitions and conferences this spring. Our current PhotoResearcher No 31 “Looking at Photography Now. 40 Years ESHPh”, a comprehensive issue with 288 pages on the occasion of our last year’s anniversary, can be ordered at [email protected]. We hope you will find our recommendations interesting and wish you pleasant reading. Uwe Schögl (President of the ESHPh), Ulla Fischer-Westhauser (Vice-president) Australia International Convention Centre, Sydney Aperture Photography Conference 2019 Conference: 22/23 June 2019 https://apertureaustralia.com.au Austria Albertina, Vienna (ESHPh member) Photo.Book.Art Exhibition: 28 June - 22 September 2019 Only when it became possible to reproduce photographs in print, which permitted book editions of practically unlimited copies, did photography grow into a mass medium that would go on to visually dominate the 20th century. But even so, the combination of convincing photography, refined book design, and artisanal perfectionism did produce a broad spectrum of those earliest photo volumes in Austria - of which this is the first-ever public exhibition. https://www.albertina.at/en/exhibitions/photo.book.art/ Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt Images as Agents in Digital Public Spheres Workshop: 27 – 28 June 2019 https://visualworkshop.info/workshop-program/ Edition Lammerhuber, Baden (ESHPh member) “Hymn to the Earth”: Festival La Gacilly – Baden Photo Events: until 30 September 2019 http://festival-lagacilly-baden.photo Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna (ESHPh member) Propeller – Artstudents in Austria Exhibition: until 6 July 2019 The Propeller exhibition, the title of which derives from the Latin propellere – “to drive forwards” is showing a selection of works by students of Austrian art academies and colleges. On the one hand, the Fotogalerie Wien would like to expose their work to a wider public and, on the other, provide the opportunity for them to get to know exhibition-making more intimately. http://www.fotogalerie-wien.at/content.php?id=10&ausstellung=247&details=1 OÖ Landesmuseum, Landesgalerie, Linz (ESHPh member) Fashion Moments. Focus on Female Photographers Exhibition: 18 June – 15 September 2019 Starting from the historical work of photographer Madame d'Ora the exhibition "Fashion Moments" presents works of Austrian female photographers which are based on the intersection of art and fashion photography. Within important international positions the exhibition shows both the scope and the contact between commercial orders by the fashion industry and contemporary art. In addition, the exhibition deals with the construction of role models, gender matters, and stereotypes in the field of fashion photography. Hence it also raises the social impact of photography and publicity on modern fashion. http://www.landesmuseum.at/de/ausstellungen/detail/zieh-mich-an-fotografinnen-zwischen-mode-und- kunst.html OÖ Landesmuseum, Photomuseum Bad Ischl (ESHPh member) Of Animals and Humans. Historic Animal Photography from the Frank collection Exhibition: until 31 October 2019 http://www.landesmuseum.at/de/ausstellungen/detail/von-tieren-und-menschen-historische-tierfotografie-aus- sder-sammlung-frank.html WestLicht, Vienna (ESHPh member) Édouard Baldus. Transit and Monument Exhibition: until 21 July 2018 On the occasion of the 180th anniversary of photography WestLicht travels back to the early days of the medium showcasing the work of Édouard Baldus (1813 – 1889): The German-French pioneer is considered a key figure of 19th century photography. Curated by ESHPh Honorary member Anna Auer. http://www.westlicht.com/en/exhibitions/edouard-baldus-transit-und-monument/ ESHPh - The International Letter - Summer 2019 2 Wien Museum, Vienna (ESHPh member) Red Vienna. 1919 to 1934 Exhibition: until 19 January 2020 The first free and unrestricted elections for the Vienna City Council in May 1919 give the Social Democratic Workers’ Party of Austria the absolute majority of votes and mandates. The exhibition examines the specific historic preconditions for Red Vienna, long-term effects on the city's structure and layout, the relation between Austromarxist ideology and political pragmatism, international influences, the impression that Red Vienna created outside the city, and the current political relevance of this dynamic and experimental 15-year period in Viennese municipal politics. https://www.wienmuseum.at/en Belgium FoMu Fotomuseum Antwerp Maan / Moon Exhibiton: 28 June – 6 October 2018 https://www.fotomuseum.be/en/exhibitions/Maan_Moon.html Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi (ESHPh member) ROMAN-PHOTO Pays de papier. Les livres de voyage Splendide isolement. Collection Bruno Vermeersch 3 Exhibitions: until 22 September 2019 www.museephoto.be Canada National Gallery, Ottawa-Ontario (ESHPh member) Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath Exhibition: until 2 September 2019 Whether picking out a single face in a crowd, capturing an act of violence between siblings, or framing close-up portraits of quiet despair, Dave Heath (1931–2016) had an instinctive ability to capture the soul behind the public persona. Extending the autobiographical mode of American photojournalist, W. Eugene Smith, he produced intense and profound images that plumbed the depths and subtleties of the human condition. https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/multitude-solitude-the-photographs-of-dave-heath Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography Exhibition: 11 October 2019 – 22 March 2020 Explore photographs from a period of social and political transformation in Japanese history (1926–89). Organized by the Yokohama Museum of Art in collaboration with the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada. https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/hanran-20th-century-japanese-photography Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture Exhibition: 11 September – 8 December 2019 Drawn from the extraordinary holdings of The Walther Collection, The Way She Looks revisits the history of African photographic portraiture through the perspectives of women, both as sitters and photographers. Spanning the ESHPh - The International Letter - Summer 2019 3 beginnings of colonial photography on the continent to the present day, the exhibition features contemporary works by female artists, including Yto Barrada, Jodi Bieber, Lebohang Kganye, Zanele Muholi, Grace Ndiritu, and Nontsikelelo “Lolo” Veleko alongside 1950s studio portraits by such important historical figures as Malick Sidibé and Seydou Keïta, and nineteenth-century prints, cartes de visite, postcards, and albums. https://ryersonimagecentre.ca/exhibition/the-way-she-looks-a-history-of-female-gazes-in-african-portraiture/ Czech Republic Muzeum fotografie a moderních obrazovych médií, Jindrichuv Hradec (ESHPh member) Jan Šplíchal – photography, Jiří Sýkora – photography Exhibition: from 25 May 2019 http://www.mfmom.cz/ Denmark Copenhagen Photo Festival Events: 6 – 16 June 2019 http://copenhagenphotofestival.com Brandts Musset for Fotokunst, Odense (ESHPh member) Anton Corbijn Exhibition: until 17 November 2019 U2, De-peche Mode, David Bowie and Metallica are just some of the many artists immortalised by the Dutch celebrity photographer His raw, honest photographic expression has defined a whole generation of musicians, bringing Corbijn nothing less than cult status. https://brandts.dk/en/udstilling/anton-corbijn/ Finland Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki (ESHPh member) Out of Sight: Picturing the Unseen Exhibition: 12 June – 1 September 2019 The exhibition highlights four emerging interdisciplinary artists - Cihad Caner (TR/NL), Róisín White (IE), Sinead Kennedy (AU), Agata Wieczorek (PL) - whose work examines how certain groups of people’s visibility is routinely denied or controlled by others. The exhibition asks who is unseen, particularly in the West, and considers how difference is frequently negotiated and constructed through forms of visual representation. It approaches the unseen as a process — an unseeing, reinforced through the systematic erasure, removal, marginalization, and avoidance of those deemed culturally other. https://www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/en/exhibitions/out-sight-picturing-unseen One Photo Manifest Exhibition: 13 September – 17 November 2019 This exhibition will highlight the significance of one photograph. In the exhibition, the artists attempt to portray everything needed in one piece without the support of adjacent works from the same artist or extended written descriptions. Highlighting the independence of one photograph is a political act in a time that celebrates serialism. https://www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/en/exhibitions/one-photo-manifest ESHPh - The International Letter - Summer 2019 4 Åbo Akademi University, Turku 6th European Congress on World and Global History: Silence in/of Archives. Absence, Erasure, Censorship, and Archival Politics (Session) Conference: 25 – 28 June
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